Percy Hislop Sykes

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270336

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

South Yorkshire

Birth city:

Sheffield

Address at enlistment:

199 Murray Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

199 Murray Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Clerk

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX March 19, 1918

Returning Home

Charles Bisset, Percy Sykes, John Houison, Henry Carruthers, John Partridge, George Sutton and Thomas Tyrrell

The above list of men returning home has been received by Secretary MacDonald of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission, and the party is expected to arrive tomorrow. The usual reception by Mr. MacDonald will be tendered the men and there will be nothing special in the nature of the welcome from a civic standpoint, as it was thought at a representative meeting this morning that the relatives of the men had the first and only call on the time of the men when they first arrived home. At the meeting this morning, which was attended by Board of Trade representatives, manufacturers, ladies of the Patriotic League and representatives of other bodies, it was unanimously decided, on motion of C.G. Ellis and John S. Dowling, to give a banquet at an early date to all returned men, and that the cooperation of the Women’s Patriotic league be secured to this end. Mrs. Livingston, the president, and Miss Raymond were present and promised cooperation for the league.

Another conference will be held with the ladies when the banquet will be gone into in more detail.

The committee appointed to complete arrangements was as follows: Mayor MacBride, Mrs. Livingston, Mrs. Hurley, George Macdonald, Ald. Boddy, Ald. Harp, C.G. Ellis, George Stinchcombe, J.W. Shepperson and F.W. Thompson. There have been 366 men returned so far to Brantford and all will be included in the civic invitation to dine.

It is also proposed to hold a soldiers’ week this summer in Brantford, and the following committee was named to prosecute the matter: C. Jarvis, chairman; W. Lahey, A.G. Brown, L. Waterous. A big soldiers’ picnic is also to be arranged for, when it is hoped that a medal will be ready for distribution by the city. The idea is that of the mayor, who hopes to have a medal designed which will not be any cheap trinket, but suitable as an expression of civic gratitude and pride in the wearer.

BX April 10, 1964

Percy Sykes

Percy Sykes, 73 of 8 Terrace Hill Street, died Thursday in the Brantford General Hospital. He was born in Sheffield, England, and had been a resident of Brantford for the past 52 years. During the First World War he was with the 215th Battalion. He was an accountant with the CNR, retiring in 1955. Mr. Sykes was a member of the Salvation Army Citadel and the Brantford Senior Citizens. Surviving besides his wife, the former Jessie Villiers, are three sons, Bernard, Charlie and Leonard all of Brantford; two daughters, Mrs. Douglas (Kathleen) Huculak, Mrs. Ernest (Hazel) Charters both of Brantford; a sister, Maggie of England; nine grandchildren’ four great-grandchildren. A son, Gordon died in 1963. Mr. Sykes is at the Hill and Robinson Funeral home, for service Monday at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Brig. M.H. Corbett will officiate.